“Raw concrete or masonry, a limited palette of materials, and the use of enduring construction elements such as stone or concrete are the hallmarks of Brutalist architecture,” explains Ulinskas.
"The Brutalist" will be released nationwide next week. The film tells the story of an architect who survives the Holocaust and brings that unique building style to America. It's not the only spotlight ...
In this roundup, we explore sculptural concrete buildings that evoke the geometries and monumental aspects of brutalism, but ...
How these menacing towers of raw concrete that just a few short years ago were considered the ugliest buildings in the world became highly covetable and intensely influential all over again.
Antoine Béclère Hospital by Henry Pottier and Jacques Vial. Image © Nigel Green / Photolanguage The publication is structured into spatially-oriented chapters that ...
As part of a major initiative to modernise schools and educational facilities in the city of Düsseldorf, the Friedrich-Rückert grammar school renovation represents a first step towards the future. In ...
In his 1981 diatribe against contemporary American architecture, “From Bauhaus to Our House,” Tom Wolfe noted that seemingly every American child “goes to a school in a building that looks like a ...
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In the mornings, they collect paper-pushers and patterns of sun and shade. In the evenings, their shadows swallow entire streets, their surfaces swell with yellow light. Whether humdrum haunts of ...